It’s getting close: Ashes 2015 dates, venues
IT’S not long until the opening ball of the 2015 Ashes series. To get you in the mood, here is a guide to the venues, dates, ground records and recent history.
The Ashes
‘England will probably play like we do’
AUSTRALIA coach Darren Lehmann is expecting former NSW and ex-Sri Lanka mentor Trevor Bayliss to bring a new attacking style to the England camp
Five big Ashes talking points
AUSTRALIA’S pace battery sharpened its teeth with a 2-0 series win over West Indies, highlighting just one dilemma selectors are facing.
Bayliss in no rush to get to England
TREVOR Bayliss is taking his time to get to England to start his new job, putting full confidence in assistant and close friend, Paul Farbrace.
Mellowed Warner wants bat to do the talking
DAVID Warner aims to be less abrasive towards opposing players, so he can become even more productive and explosive with his bat.
Haddin keen to realise Ashes dream
WHEN Brad Haddin quit Australia’s tour of the West Indies in 2012 to be with his ill daughter Mia, he wasn’t fussed about ever playing Test cricket again.
Ashes can wait as Aussies eye another Test win
AUSTRALIA coach Darren Lehmann couldn’t have been more relaxed than after his side crushed West Indies in three days for a nine-wicket win in the first Test.
The Ashes Files: Voges, Cook and 2005 revisited
NEWS and nonsense ahead of the series, including view from over there, Kevin Pietersen’s Ashes diary and The Ashes explained in (poorly drawn) diagrams.
Australia warned: don’t get in a double spin
THE Windsor Park track where Australia will face West Indies in the first Test is seen as a spinners’ paradise. Not so, says the venue’s groundsman.
Ahmed hoping selectors play the long game
TEST hopeful Fawad Ahmed says it’s hard to make a breakthrough in a tour match when the other team is playing out a dull draw.
Cook makes history but Kiwis fight back
NEW Zealand’s pace men lead a recovery on day two of Headingley Test after Alastair Cook becomes England’s all-time leading Test run-scorer.
Hazlewood now up for the fight
PERHAPS the most telling moment of Josh Hazlewood’s remarkable rise was his Brisbane breakdown and how he proved himself a fighter.
This made a tough Ashes even tougher: Boof
AUSTRALIA coach Darren Lehmann says the appointment of Trevor Bayliss as England’s coach will ensure the upcoming Ashes series will be fiercely competitive.
Warnie backs surprise England selection
ENGLAND is on the verge of appointing an Aussie to lead them in the Ashes and Shane Warne believe it’s made the right choice.
The Reverse Sweep: Poms find form (yes, really)
ALL the news, views and nonsense ahead of the series – including KP’s Ashes diary, the UK view and The Ashes explained via badly drawn venn diagrams.
Gillespie interviewed for England job
FORMER Australian fast bowler Jason Gillespie has held talks with Andrew Strauss about succeeding Peter Moores as England coach.
Yorkshire bonus as injured Finch heals quickly
AUSSIE star Aaron Finch is five weeks ahead of schedule in his comeback from a severe hamstring surgery and hopes to return on June 14.
Root and Stokes dig England out of a hole
A COUNTER attack from England’s middle order spared the hosts’ blushes at Lords’ after New Zealand had them 4-30 and in disarray at one point.
Dizzy’s dilemma over England role
JASON Gillespie has deliberately kept a low profile since being linked with the vacant England coaching job, but he has emerged to discuss the predicament he’s facing.
Will loyal Langer join Boof’s boys?
JUSTIN Langer could be called on to help the Australian team prepare for the Ashes after deciding not to apply for England coaching job and remain in WA.
Ahmed selection patience to pay dividends
BRAD Haddin says it would have been a bad look for Australian cricket had Fawad Ahmed been fast-tracked for a Test debut in 2013 as was originally planned.
Haddin calls time on ODI career
AUSTRALIA’S World Cup-winning wicketkeeper-batsman Brad Haddin has announced he is retiring from one-day internationals.
‘I didn’t make any promises to KP’: Graves
ECB chairman Colin Graves has responded to Kevin Pietersen’s claims of being misled, saying he never made any promises the exiled batsman would be recalled by England.
Can Kiwis soften up Poms for Aussies this time?
LET’S hope the Kiwis quickly got over their Cricket World Cup final defeat and aren’t as benevolent to the Poms as they were two years ago.
English cricket’s pantomime villains
TWO months shy of the Ashes and England are a shambles. But who’s to blame? We name and shame the guilty men (warning: it’s a long list).
Pietersen saga sparks Hitler parody
ENGLAND’S new director of cricket Andrew Strauss has been mocked in a Downfall parody following his decision to continue Kevin Pietersen’s exile.
Pietersen’s exile shocks Aussies
AUSTRALIA’S cricketers are in disbelief over Kevin Pietersen’s England exile and are delighted they won’t have to face him in this year’s Ashes.
‘The ECB and KP don’t trust each other’
ANDREW Strauss said Kevin Pietersen was “not part of our plans for the summer”, saying there was a “massive trust issue” between the ECB and the controversial batsman.
KP’s shadow to haunt England during Ashes
THERE is more chance of low-flying pigs over Lord’s than England fans and media moving on quickly from the Kevin Pietersen saga which will now become an Ashes sideshow.
Pietersen smashes triple ton for Surrey
KEVIN Pietersen belted an incredible triple century for county side Surrey, only to reportedly be told he will never play for England again.
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